Toilet Surgery

OK, so I'm not mechanically inclined. It's just not something that comes naturally to me....but since I bought my house, I have forced myself to learn to do some of these 'scary' things (especially since hiring people to do these jobs gets expensive!).

My master bathroom toilet has been 'running' for a while now and I decided to finally attack it. I researched what to do online and then went to my favorite Lowe's to get the parts (a new flapper).

I came home and got everything situated and had my laptop handy for instructions. It was scary to do plumbing since I know nothing about it, but I did feel better that I could shut off the water to the toilet while I worked - no flooding or anything!

I removed the old part and successfully installed the new part - in just a matter of minutes - AMAZING!

Here's the 'pretty' new flapper. WOW - am I old and geeky or what? I'm excited about a new toilet flapper!

And for the whole rest of the day, my toilet didn't run ONCE! Aaaaah - music to my ears!

.............However, after that magical first day, it started running again.........so now I am trying to figure out what else is wrong with it. It totally burst my bubble after thinking that I had saved the world - errrr......fixed my toilet!

Any ideas?????